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The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-04

The late Captain James b. Eads was
buried at St. Louis March 18th.
1t is rumored that the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton syndicate has
bought the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road. John w. Mackey is said to
have four millions in the deal. Part
of the scheme is to consolidate the b.
& o. telegraph system with that of all
other companies except the Western
Union.
President Cleveland and lady are in
yited to attend the G. A. K annual
encampment at st. Louis in September.
A Washington despatch intimates
that there is no fear of financial panic
this summer. Congress refused to do
anything regarding financial matters
one way or the other, and under the
present policy Of the Treasury
Department it is believed that affairs
can run along smoothly through any
strain that is likely to occur.
Adam Forepaugh has leased the
New York Academy of Music at a
yearly rental Of $4,000, He will
charge but 10 cents, 20 cents and 90
cents, With the best seats in the house
at only 50 cents, No posters will be
used but all advertising be done
through the newspapers, and there will
be no free tickets, even the press hay
ing to pay for admission
Walter L. Lawton is one Of the latest
emigrants from New York for Canada,
his liabilities being a round million.
kidnapping wealthy people for ran
som is favorite game in Cuba at pre-
sent. Fires on sugar plantations are
very frequent in the same country.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-04
Books r elating to Hawaii

BOOKS Relating TO HAWAII.
Fomander's Polynesian Race,
Our Journal in the Pacific.
Jaryes' History Of the Hawaiian Islands.
Andrews Hawaiian Dictionary.
Andrews Hawaiian Grammar.
whitneys Guide Book
Miss Birds Six Months in the Sandwich Islands.
Hawaiian Almanac and Annals rs7s-Iss7.
Hawaiian Cook Book-reyised edition
Hawaiian Phrase Books.
Easy Lessons for Hawaiians,
For sale by
THOS, @. THRUM,
No. 100 Fort ST.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

Canada, it is reported, has voted $500
600 to buy land and establish an agricul-
tural experiment station III the Dominion.
Great loss to Montana cattlemcn is re-
ported in stock dying from exposure and
lack Of food.
The United States wool clip for 1886, ac-
cordng to The Annual Wool Circular, was
short of 1885 by 1000, 600 pounds, not
withstanding an increase in the Pacific
states and northern territories, the diminu-
ton in TeXns being nearly 20 per cent,
with more On .css shortage in most of the
states east of the Mississippi. The esti-
mattel clip for 1886 is set down at 322, 800
600 pounds against 320, 600, 900 pounds in
1885.
Statistics compiled by the New York
Produce Exchange give 81, 900 packages OF
butter on hand in New York city Jan. :,
1887, as compared with 63,S75 packages
Jan. I, 1885. Fifty per cent. of this Is
western creamery and about 20 per cent
state dairy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

Good cider vinegar can be made easily
and quickly if the following directions are
followed When the ciuer is made, save
the pomace and put it in tight barrels or
hogsheads, with one head out, and put
in enough rain water to cover it. After
it has begun 20 ferment, draw off from
the bottom all that you can, dilute the
cider with it, and nearly two barrels
of vinegar can be made of one of
cider DO not fill the barrels in which the
cider is to be made quite full, as there
should be space for air. Leave the
bung hole open, but protect it from flies
by q covering of wire screen or gauze.
Put into each barrel one or two pounds of
bread dough, in the condition it is in when
your wife is kneading it out into loaves.
Once day, for few weeks draw out
from each barrel a gallon of the cider
and pour it into the bung hole, SO as to
get air into it. A quart or two of
molasses are recommended as II help,
and beech shavings and brown
paper are often used to hasten the
acetic fermentation; but we think the
bread dough is best. If the vinegar is
made in summer, it may be made out of
doors, but late in the fall it should be in II
room where the temperature can be kept
up to 20 or so degs by stove heat. There
is good demand for cider vinegar, and
the making of it will be found quite profit
able if due attention is given to it and an
article uniformly good produced Rural
New Yorker
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
Potassium for Mildew.

John Hunter, Tivoli, n. Y, in Nicks'
Popular Monthly, says: 1t may be useful
to know my experience with sulphidc of
potassium. In cold grapery, through
neglect, on very hot day in August, and
not sufficient air having been given,
| attribute the cause of mil
dew, which | found gaining rapid head
way when | went into the house n
day or two afterwards. My first thought
/ cannot describe for the vines were set
with an abundant crop Of fruit. a deci-
sion to stop the ravageS at once was
quickly formed, as the use of Sulphide of
potassium occurred to me Therefore,
at & O'Clock next morning | went into
the winery with pound of the sui
phide, | put quarter of an ounce into
two gallons of water and commenced to
syringe the vines. AS soon as | had gone
all over them with the solution | com
menced to wash the foliage with clear
water by turning it on through the hose
in order to be secure against any evil that
might occur from too great strength. ! re-
peated this two mornings more. The grapes
at the time were three parts colored, and
to-day they are in perfect condition, |
may say that sulphide of potassium is the
quick dispatcher of mildew, and the friend
of the gardener.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
Practical Sheep Culture.

Statistics make it appear that medium
wool commands better price now than
fine wool In consideration of this fact n
Michigan sheep breeder at the late meet
ing of the American Merino Sheep Regis
ter association, advises: First, the com
mon breeder of the native ranger-raising
sheep for the market-couple his flock of
coarse wool ewes with good selection of
thoroughbred merino rams, and thereby
increase the weight and improve the quail
ity of fleece without decreasing the weight
of the carcass.
In crossing the breeder further advises
that no one be led by any false notions of
economy to use anything but thorough
bred sire on the flock. In case one owns
the common natives of the country, the
use of we'll bred sire is all the more i'm
portant, for nowhere else will the evil
dence of his power to transmit his charac-
teristics he seen than on common stock.
The experiment of crossing coarse wool
rams on fine wool ewes produces disas-
trous failures, the result being. so far as
the work is concerned, IA grade not desir-
able, owing to its variety. The result is
generally a light, dry, tough wool to cut,
and frequently n surface on the sheep of
little fine wrinkles, over which it is diff
cult to shear.
In considering the subject of public
shearing matches, and the infatuati0n for
producing a heavy fleece without due re-
gard to quality, this Michigan grower be
lieved that the ambition to produce heavy
fleece cannot receive too much encourage
ment, provided the standard of excellence
can at the same time be improved; then
and not until then, should this depart
ment of the enterprise be considered
worthy of attention. For what can be
the object in producing twenty-five tC
thirty pounds of wool which shrinks Sc
much in cleansing that fewer pounds Of
desirable wool are obtained than from {
lighter fleece that has gained greater
length of staple. 1t is often the. case tina
a dense, short and very oily fleece weighs
more than another that will cleanse out 1
greater quantity of wool Of superior
quality,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

The advantages of the Jerseys over other
breeds, according to The Live Stock
Monthly, are:
|. Jerseys make more butter annually,
compared with the food they eat, than any
other breed
>. Jerseys make better butter than any
other breetl-better grain and better
flavor.
3. Jersey milk is the most profitable
because it contains more butter per quart
than that of any other breed, its cream
rises quicker and its butter comes quicker.
4. Jersey butter brings from two to ten
cents more pound than any other, as a
rule, throughout the United States; hence,
on ninety farms out of hundred where
butter is a speciality the introduction of
Jersey blood will change butter making
from Il dead loss TO a net profit.
s. Butter farming is more profitable,
healthful and refined than truck farming,
beef farming. poultry or pig raising.
6. For every cent lost on account of the
jerseys small carcass, there are two cents
gained on account of her better butter and
larger annual yield.
We want Holstcins and Ayrshires for
the general cheese and milk supply; we
want Shorthorns and IIerefords for their
beef, but the country wants the Jersey
for her butter-so let us have an end to
the opposition which this breed has met
with for forty years He who spccializcs
wins. The general purpose COW" is an
impossible animal. Let each farmer de-
eide whether all circumstances point to a
beef, milk or n butter breed, and choose
his stock accordingly,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

may be considered as an average specimen
though some burs contain as many as
six nuts.
In regard to this tree Mr. Lovett, pro-
prietor of the nursery where the burr
shown in the cut was grown, says: 1.-The
tree seems to be good and thrifty grower
and nicely fitted for a place on the lawn,
as it branches out low and forms close
compact head. 1t should he understood,
however. that the Japan chestnut varies
as much in size of tree and nut and in
bearing quality as our native sweet chest
nut or the English walnut"
About the fruit of this tree Mr.. Lovett
very frankly says that it is neither as
brittle, tender nor sweet as our native
chestnut. But since, when roasted, it
compares favorably in quality with the
Spanish chestnut so largely sold in cities,
he has no doubt but that the Japan
chestnut crop, if produced in this country,
would find ready sale for the purposes Of
the now imported Spanish nut and prove
profitable to the producer
The great advantage the Japan chest
nut has over other foreign varieties of the
chestnut family seems to be its more
dwarfish habit of growth, remarkably
early fruiting, its apparent hardness,
which 50 far appears to be equal to our
native chestnuts.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
WIRE TIGHTENER.

A useful article for tightening trellis
wires is made as follows Put two screws
about three inches apart into small piece
of wood Il few inches long, and near one
end single screw, leaving the heads pro
jecting about half an inch. BY placing
the wire between the two screws and turn
ing the wood around, the wire is drawn
tight; and by engaging the head of the
single screw upon it, the tension is main
tanned. Fig, | shows the operation of the
contrivance, and Fig. the arrangement
of the screws or pins. A strong piece of
wood two feet long and iron bolts fastened
with nuts at the back furnish form of
this device that may be used to tighten
wire fences.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

The area, product and value Of the
crops of corn, wheat and oats last year, as
prepared for permanent record by the Ma
tional department Of agriculture, is as fol-
lows:
The corn crop, in round numbers, ag-
gregates l $50, 10000 bushels, grown on
"a, 00O, 600 acres and has n farm value of
$G10, 000,0 600. The yield is % bushels per
acre. 1-2 bushels less than last year.
There is an increase Of area Of over per
cent, and decrease in product of II per
cent, while the average price has in
creased II per cent, or from 81, 3 cents to
1876 cents per bushel
The aggregate product OF wheat is
457, 600 600 bushels, from an area of nearly
37000000 acres having a farm value Of
1914, 600, 600. The average value Is 66.7
cents per bushel, against n, | for the pre-
vious crop and Ga cents for tho great
crop of 1884, This is 80 per cent. reduc-
ton from the average value between 1870
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
New Inventions in Barrels.

Numbered with novel productions in
way of barrels is a ventilated barrel intro
duced to public notice 10y Isaac a. Kerr,
of Muscatine, Ia, the inventor This
package is described by those who have
seen it as a bulging barrel, having its
sides constructed of straight parallel edged
slaves or Stats convcxed longitudinally,
The slaves are secured by woven wires in
position to form between the slaves, ven
tilating openings enlarged from the ends
TO the middle of the barrel. There is an
inner pervious lining adapted to admit
ventilation through the openings
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

and 1880. The general average for winter
and spring wheat is nearly l2.4 bushels
per acre.
The product of oats is 62i,000 900 bush
els, 10000 less than last year. from an
area of over %. 600. 600 acres, producing n
value of $1SG, 000,0 600. The average yield
Is 26.4 bushels, against 216 last year.
The average value is 20 cents per bhshel;
last year, 2S. ) cents per bushcl.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
FARM AND GARDEN.
VENTILATED BARRELS, ALSO BAR
RELS MADE OF ONE STAVE.

Homemade Contrivances for Tightening
Wire-Crop Statistics and other Agri-
cultural News-Advantages of the Japan
Chestnut over other Foreign Varieties.
Considerable interest has been mani
tested of late in the Japan chestnut, which
has thus far seemed to thrive better here
than other members of the European
chestnut family (castanea vesca).
Our nurserymen generally are ready to
speak a good word for this tree, and are
recommending it, not only for its fruit,
but as pleasing Object on the lawn.
The picture here given is an admirable
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
A Wire Tightener,

At present trcllises and fences are so
largely made of wire that n homemade
contrivance for tightening the wire is
often of great service.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

The cut here given represents one
stave barrel from the factory of the Anchor
Manufacturing company, Detroit, Mich
1t is sufficiently plain to be understood
without any written explanation,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04

representation of
one of ten burs
that were the first
to ripen in last sea-
sons crop at the
Monmouth nurse
ry Little Silver,
n. j., where the
Japan chestnut
has been tested
along with other
foreign varieties.
The cut shows a
b u 7 containing
three nuts, and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
FREE SEED DISTRIBUTIONS

were first suggested, andlthe best varieties I'M
der test have been selected AID sent t. sub
Rural Blush potatoes have been introduced !;
the iehl-Mediterranean, Surprise and Fult-
zo-Clawson Wheats; the Cuthbcrt Raspberry {;
the Rural Branching Sorghum Rural Thor
oughbred, Bount's Prolific Corn, and Strata
gem, Telephone, Rural New-Yorker and Alas
ka Peas and scores of other varieties which
are recognized as the best now in cultivation.
Ii is the accepted Medium for the introduce
ton of all new plants, Seed and Agricultural
and Garden Implements. The first men of the
country recognize 1t as earnestly striving to
promote the best agricultural, horticultural
and stock interests of America.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
HOW 1T AFFECTED THE DEACOy.

bacco made. 1t costs more than other and
inferior grades, and needs but one trial to prove
Its superiority. 10 cents. All grocers sell 1t now
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
ANTI-AP0PLECTINE
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Read the following letter from Judge-Adyocate
General Marsh. Senator from Franklin County,
VT. Fall of so -
Enosburgh Falls, VT, Sept. II, 1856.
DIR. +. :. Hutchinson.
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self have found it valuable tonic dRd al rQire,
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Yours thankfully,
&. l.. MARSH.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-06
The Fourth at Byram.

EDITOR CLARION: The generous peo-
pie of Byram celebrated the glorious
Fourth in patriotic style, The hospi-
talities of the occasion were dispensed
with the utmost profusion by Drs
Catchings, Barnes, Messrs. Coon, Mill
kens, Stanly, Tucker, Hemphill.
Jones, and others, together with the la
dies who graced the day with their pres
ence. A good old-fashioned barbecue
was supplemented with all the delica
cies of the season. Speeches were first
in order, commencing with an address
by Hon. E. Barksdale, followed by can
didates in the order named, Messrs
John Shelton, District Attorney AL
bert G.. Lewis, County Treasurer) Hez
zie Casper, (Assessor) Robert Bradley,
supervisor District) William Harris
Gor Magistrate) was called for, but de
clined to speak in the absence of his
competitor, and Capt. White Cor
Sheriff. in response to the call, said he
preferred acting rather than speaking.
Rev. Mr.. Keen, of the Methodist church,
closed this part of the programme with
an entertaining recitation. The bellies
and the beaux looked love to eyes that
spoke again the farmers felicitated each
other upon their promising crops; the
candidates interviewed the sovereigns
generally; and at a late hour the assem-
blage adjourned, every one delighted
with the entertainment.
SPRING RIDGE.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-06
The Noblest Roman of Them All.

1t is reported that in spite of his I'M
willingness, the Democrats of Ohio in
tend to nominate Allen G. Thurman, of
Ohio, for Governor; and what is more,
that he will snow under "little breech-
es" Foraker, the Republican candidate,
by 10000 majority, in one of those reac-
tive swells that sometimes get control of
the public mind under the influence of
the Sober, second thought" If this
should happen, it will change the entire
aspect of the Presidential contest next
year. The eyes of the Democracy will
turn from New York to Ohio for the
candidate; and nothing but providen-
tial decree or the Interchangeable refusal
of Thurman himself, can prevent his
nomination and election by spontanie-
ty which the country has not felt for
half century.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-06

Our scholarly friend, Maj. w. T.
Walthall, is opposed to the city to be
founded at the Southern terminus OF
the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
being called "Gulf City," because the
name "has long beeen appropriated, by
popular usage distinctively to Mobile,
and to apply it as the original name of
another city, would, perhaps, be re.
garded as discourteous, or, at least, a
mere imitation, suggestive of great
poverty of resources in nomenclature
He also objects that the appendage
City" is hackneyed and inappropriat tie
on general principles. He suggests that
the town be called 'Iberville," after the
name of the illustrious discoverer of
Ship Island Harbor, whose hopes and
plans he says are just now after the
lapse of nearly two hundred years in
fair way to be realized.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-06
The Thurman Boom.

COLUMBUS, June 29.-The Democratic
State Convention will be held at Cleve-
land, o., on July 20 and 81.
As the time grows nearer for the
meeting of the Convention, it becomes
more and more apparent that Allen G.
Thurman win be nominated by acclama-
ton for Governor. The ex-senator ia
not anxious to again enter the political
arena, but he cannot well refuse unan.
imous call of his party, the party that
has honored him so often. If he will
allow his name to go before the Conven-
ton (and it looks now as if he willy no
other name will be mentioned, and Thur
man win be placed at the head of the
ticket amid storm of applause. Thur
man would poll a tremendous vote for
Governor. Old Democrats who have
not voted since the war would come out
" their holes and vote for Thurman.
III nomination would create the great
80 enthusiasm ever known in Ohio, and
W. would snow under Foraker BY 1t
least %, 900 majority.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-06

A CORRESPONDENT of the n. O. City
ITEM, referring to the statement of Adju-
tant General Drum that he has in his
custody number of Union flags cap
tured in action says: 1.-THE number is
not given but we can speak by the
card when we say he must have many
hundreds, for in the Adjutant Generals
Office in Richmond, where these Union
flags were re-captured upon the fall of
the Confederacy, they were piled like
cord-wood.' So numerously were they
sent in from the front during the
Seven Days Battle around Richmond,
when Mcclellan was hurried to the
James, the writer remembers seeing
Kemper's brigade marching through
Richmond, and every regiment carried
four captured colors grouped around
their battle flags. At Second Manassas
'Chicamauga' and around Petersburg
the captures were counted by scores"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-06
Well Done.

The Mississippi River Commission
met in New York on Thursday last
The result, as far as ascertained, is graf
flying to our Mississippi interests. The
Commission has adopted the project for
the improvement of the Vicksburg har-
Dor by dredging out the channel at a
cost of s3S0,000. The $4,000 appropri-
alton, August 5, 1886, will be at once
expended. The Commission also adopt
ed plan for the improvement of the
harbor of Greenville by revetting the
bank. The s37, 800 appropria tion by
Congress and the $4,000 donated by the
city of Greenville will be used in this
work.
Representative Catchings and the
able delegation of which he was the
head, have done their work we'll